Early Literacy Reflection

Literacy has always been an important part of my life but in my early years, reading and writing was a tremendous challenge for me. When I reflect back on my childhood I’m reminded of a variety of things, moments like going camping or riding a bycicle, but mot importantly, being the oldest one and haing to set an example for my sisters. It’s what I had to do since I was the oldest. If I didn’t adise my sisters on to the rigght path since the beginning, then they wouldbt be as far up the trail of eucation as they are today. Although the experience of being the oldest and having some kind of influence towards my three sisters, and getting the opportunity of being an only child for a couple years was a blessing, I can say it wasn’t all fun and
games, there were some rough patches along the way. I had to be the ideal older sister for my sisters and the perfect daughter for my parents. An immense amount of Hispanics know that living with parents that aren’t particularly familiar with the English language is challenging. Not having someone to be there to help me with reading and writing was difficult and puzzling in the sense that I didn’t have anyone to look up to. No one was with me when I had a hard time saying the word 'environment' or when I had to write about a book that I read. I had to find a way to learn on my own since my parents were only familiar with Spanish. Along the way, I had to find methods to not only teach myself, but to teach my sisters and parent the English vocabulary; not only was I in charge of myself but I was in charge of them too.